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Microsoft to set up India’s largest datacenter region in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Microsoft on Monday announced the establishment of its latest data centre region in Hyderabad to help customers in India thrive in a cloud and AI-enabled digital economy. The Hyderabad data centre region will be an addition to the existing network of three regions in India across Pune, Mumbai, and Chennai. It will offer the … Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News , Technology , Entertainment , Sports , Politics and Top Stories on WhatsApp & Telegram by subscribing to our channels. You can also download our app for Android and iOS .

Hyderabad: The State of Telangana is all set to get its biggest investment so far. Technology giant Microsoft is all set to invest Rs 15,000 crore to set up its largest datacentre region of India in Hyderabad. Minister of IT and Industries department K T Rama Rao informed that Microsoft will be investing Rs 15,000 […]

It’s company’s largest data centre in India

IT company Microsoft on Monday said it will set up its fourth data centre in India at Hyderabad and expects to make it operational by 2025

The world''s five leading tech companies - Google (now Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (now Meta), Amazon and Microsoft - have taken steps to impose significant and (mainly) voluntary sanctions on Russia

San Francisco, March 7 (IANS) Gaming company Activision Blizzard, acquired by Microsoft for nearly $69 billion recently, is being sued by parents of an employee who died by suicide in 2017, blaming the death owing to sexual harassment. According to a report by The Washington Post, Paul and Janet Moynihan, the parents of Kerri Moynihan, […] The post Activision Blizzard sued over employee’s death over sexual harassment appeared first on Buziness Bytes .

Highlights The crackdown on media by Russian authorities has forced Netflix and TikTok to suspend their services in the country. Several US-based credit card companies have stopped their operations in Russia. Tech giants such as Samsung, Apple, Dell, Microsoft have paused shipments in Russia. Popular OTT platform Netflix and China-based social media application TikTok suspended most of their services in Russia. The Russian government has launched a media crackdown in the nation as per the new ‘fake news’ law. Read more: Russian billionaire loses mega yacht ‘Dilbar’ on Ukraine invasion The new ‘fake news’ law in Russia criminalizes anyone who publishes what Kremlin claims to be false about Russia’s war in Ukraine. Anyone found guilty will be put behind bars for 15 years or charged a fine of approximately 1.5 roubles or US$14,000. The law was approved on Friday by the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament. Image source: © Micheleursi | Megapixl.com TikTok said that its Russian users would not be able to post new videos or live stream anymore.

Activision Blizzard and Epic Games have joined a growing list of publishers suspending sales of their games in Russia due to the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In an employee letter it shared publicly on Friday, Activision president and chief operating officer Daniel Alegre said the company would pause selling its games to Russian consumers. It will also temporarily stop offering in-game microtransactions to those same customers. Epic is stopping commerce with Russia in our games in response to its invasion of Ukraine. We’re not blocking access for the same reason other communication tools remain online: the free world should keep all lines of dialogue open. — Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) March 5, 2022 One day after Activision’s announcement, Epic Games said it too was halting transactions within the country. “Epic is stopping commerce with Russia in our games in response to its invasion of Ukraine,” the company said. “We’re not blocking access for the same reason other communication tools remain online: the free world should keep all lines of dialogue open.” It’s unclear if Epic’s decision includes both its own titles and any in-game microtransactions it offers in Fortnite .

Tribune Online 10,000 African start-ups to benefit from Microsoft initiatives in five years No less than 10,000 start-ups across the African continent would benefit from a series of initiatives put together by Microsoft aimed at fast-tracking investment in Africa’s start-up ecosystem over the next five years. According to the Managing Director, Microsoft Africa Transformation Office, Wael Elkabbany: “Investments into Africa’s startup ecosystem are growing at an exciting pace. […] 10,000 African start-ups to benefit from Microsoft initiatives in five years Tribune Online

Activision Blizzard faces a wrongful death lawsuit. | Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The parents of an Activision Blizzard employee who died by suicide during a company retreat in 2017 are suing the company for wrongful death, according to a report by The Washington Post . Paul and Janet Moynihan, the parents of Kerri Moynihan, a 32-year-old finance manager at Activision Blizzard, allege sexual harassment was a “significant factor” contributing to her death. Investigators ruled Moynihan’s death a suicide after she was found dead in a hotel room at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa in April 2017. The suit claims Activision Blizzard “permitted a work environment in which sexual harassment was pervasive” As noted by The Post , Moynihan was anonymously referenced in the lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) last July, which sued Activision Blizzard for allegedly fostering a toxic culture of “constant sexual harassment.” The DFEH’s complaint claims her male co-workers passed around a photo of her vagina at a holiday party before her death.

Growth is underway for African start-ups as Microsoft says it is out with a new initiative to support 10,000 of them, leveraging its recently established Africa Transformation Office (ATO). The initiative is also aimed to fast-track investment in Africa’s start-up ecosystem over the next five years. Wael Elkabbany, managing director of ATO, says that to […]

Following the news that Microsoft is cutting off sales of all its products to Russia and EA is following suit with all its games, Activision Blizzard has announced it will be doing the same. The Call of Duty publisher is suspending all sales of its games in Russia and is tripling employee donations to relief organisations in […] Activision Blizzard is “suspending new sales” of its games in Russia

Microsoft initially announced its agreement to purchase Nuance for $19.7 billion back in April 2021.

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has completed its $19.7 billion of Nuance, a company that specialises in artificial intelligence that also has a strong foothold in the medical industry. Microsoft initially announced its agreement to purchase Nuance for $19.7 billion back in April 2021. The deal has since gone through the required regulatory approvals, reports […]